254 PSYCHODID^. 



allied to P. atrisyuami*, from which it differs by the scales on the 

 under surface of the wings covering the basal half onlv ; no obvious 

 patch of silky hairs on the alulae ; and by traces of small white 

 spots on the extreme border of the wing. 



182. Parabmnettia albohumeralis. Brun. 



Parabntnettia alb>>humerali$, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 312 

 (1911). 



5 . Body covered with dark blackish brown hairs, which, at least 

 on the abdomen, appear dark greyish in certain lights. A small 

 but very conspicuous tuft of snow-white scaly hairs at the sides of 

 the thorax, nearly below the shoulders, a little in front of the base 

 of the wing. 



Head : antennae with the general appearance of those of Psychoda 

 tHugalensi*. Legs with brown hairs and scales, which are darker 

 on the tarsi. Tips of tibiae and of metatarsi with white scales. 

 JFirt'/s with surface closely covered with dark brown hairs ; the 

 upper surface without any covering of scales except a very few at 

 the base and the small ones forming the white spots ; underside 

 of wing closely covered with small dark brown imbricating scales, 

 extending almost to the margin ; conspicuous, though small, 

 spots, composed of elongate snow-white scales, appear to be placed 

 normally at the tips of nearly all the veins, but in the three 

 examples present there is a little variability in their exact position. 

 In the type they occur as follows : at a little distance before tip of 

 1st longitudinal vein ; shortly before the 1st ending of the 2nd 

 vein ; at tips of the other two endings ; at tip of 3rd vein, both 

 branches of 4th, the 5th and 7th. A single white hair still 

 remaining shows another spot to be present on the 7th vein some 

 little distance before its tip. Tip of 6th vein without a spot. In 

 one example there is a white spot behind the tip of the 6th vein ; 

 in another specimen the spot is at the vein-tip. 



Length 1^-1 i millim. 



Described from three specimens (females) from Peradeniya, 

 taken by Mr. E. E. Green, ix. and x. 1910. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



The white shoulder-spots immediately distinguish this from all 

 other species. 



1S3. Parabmnettia argenteopunctata. Brun. 



Pfychoda arffenteopunctata,T$Twietti,Hec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 375(1908). 



Considerably resembling P. squamipennis. 



$ . Head : the antennae have a flagellum of thirteen spindle- 

 shaped joints each bearing a thick verticel of hairs. Mouth with 

 rather long bristles ; the four-jointed palpi are thin, moderately 

 hairy, gradually tapering towards the tip, the second joint being 

 twice as long as the first, the rest subequal. Abdomen : the 



